Job summary
Bank Healthcare Assistant - Kent Prisons - Band 3
*PLEASE NOTE THIS VACANCY IS FOR KENT PRISONS ONLY*
To assist in the delivery of high quality nursing care to patients in Kent Prisons in support of a registered nurse. Is able to work unsupervised for significant periods. To undertake an extended role e.g patient focused health promotion activities and programmes.
To work as part of the Integrated Healthcare Service, providing a range of quality services to Kent Prisons.
Our Kent Prisons healthcare services are underpinned using our 'health and wellbeing' model. It has evolved over the past 5 years, where it was originally implemented at the Greenwich cluster in HMP Belmarsh in 2017 which was a first for NHSE (London Region) and a model which other services built on, for us followed by HMP Isis 2018 and HMP Wandsworth 2019.
Our healthcare departments operate across six prisons each of which require a bespoke service responding to the prisoner and prison needs.
The six prisons are located across three estates, Isle of Sheppey, Rochester and Maidstone, with the Isle of Sheppey prisons being with a few minutes' walk from each other and East Sutton Park approximately 7 miles from Maidstone.
Thank you for taking an interest in our Bank Healthcare Assistant vacancy. We hope that you find this overview useful and look forward to receiving your application.
Main duties of the job
Providing physical care to patients according to a written care plan.
Being an effective communicator, observer and listener.
To work as directed by a registered nurse.
Understanding the need for and maintaining patient confidentiality and security at all times.
Adhering to all organisational and prison policies, procedures and guidelines.
Ensuring good working relationships with patients, carers, relatives, other professionals and prison and healthcare staff.
Developing an understanding of and demonstrating use of clinical supervision to reflect upon and modify practice.
Behaving at all times in a professionally acceptable manner.
About us
Oxleas - About Us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Responding to the needs of patients in an honest, non judgemental and open manner, which respects the rights of individuals and groups.
Actively engaging with patients in the provision of holistic, needs-led care which takes into account the physical, psychological, emotional, social and spiritual needs of individuals and groups.
Demonstrates a commitment to equal opportunities for all people.
Demonstrates a knowledge of the term professional boundaries and how to applying this to working with patients, offenders and others.
Responding to the needs of people sensitively with regard for age, culture, race, gender, ethnicity, religion and disability, especially regarding patient privacy and dignity.
Understanding the need for promoting health & well-being and the delivery of health promotion activities and programmes (including patient self-help programmes) in support of a registered nurse.
Understanding the need for and assisting patients to attain optimal physical health and assisting with physical procedures in support of a registered nurse.
Demonstrating good verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
Contributing appropriately to risk assessment and individualised care planning.
Dimensions of Post Holder
Develop and maintain inter-disciplinary and inter-agency working with all relevant agencies and organisations as directed.
Develop and maintain close working partnerships with HMPS, Prison Governors and Heads of Prison Services, Forensic Services, Probation Services, Crown Prosecution Service, Police and all other non-statutory agencies that are integral to prisoner/patient care and offender management.
Undertake other duties agreed in conjunction with registered staff, West Kent Integrated Primary Healthcare Services.
Custodial Responsibilities
Assume personal responsibility for the security of issued keys.
Understand and comply with prison orders, procedures, and instructions in your area of work.
Comply with all security requirements.
Respond to any situation or circumstance that might indicate a threat to security of the establishment or to the safety of an individual, completing Incident, Security, Injury, or other reports as appropriate.
Report breaches of order and discipline including reporting and recording untoward incidents according to local protocol.
Contribute to effective risk assessment and management procedures.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Responding to the needs of patients in an honest, non judgemental and open manner, which respects the rights of individuals and groups.
Actively engaging with patients in the provision of holistic, needs-led care which takes into account the physical, psychological, emotional, social and spiritual needs of individuals and groups.
Demonstrates a commitment to equal opportunities for all people.
Demonstrates a knowledge of the term professional boundaries and how to applying this to working with patients, offenders and others.
Responding to the needs of people sensitively with regard for age, culture, race, gender, ethnicity, religion and disability, especially regarding patient privacy and dignity.
Understanding the need for promoting health & well-being and the delivery of health promotion activities and programmes (including patient self-help programmes) in support of a registered nurse.
Understanding the need for and assisting patients to attain optimal physical health and assisting with physical procedures in support of a registered nurse.
Demonstrating good verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
Contributing appropriately to risk assessment and individualised care planning.
Dimensions of Post Holder
Develop and maintain inter-disciplinary and inter-agency working with all relevant agencies and organisations as directed.
Develop and maintain close working partnerships with HMPS, Prison Governors and Heads of Prison Services, Forensic Services, Probation Services, Crown Prosecution Service, Police and all other non-statutory agencies that are integral to prisoner/patient care and offender management.
Undertake other duties agreed in conjunction with registered staff, West Kent Integrated Primary Healthcare Services.
Custodial Responsibilities
Assume personal responsibility for the security of issued keys.
Understand and comply with prison orders, procedures, and instructions in your area of work.
Comply with all security requirements.
Respond to any situation or circumstance that might indicate a threat to security of the establishment or to the safety of an individual, completing Incident, Security, Injury, or other reports as appropriate.
Report breaches of order and discipline including reporting and recording untoward incidents according to local protocol.
Contribute to effective risk assessment and management procedures.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- oCare Certificate
- oAble to effectively communicate in English both verbally and in writing. This will mean that you can take part in conversations with patients and colleagues, expressing yourself in fluent English and have no difficulty in making yourself understood.
Desirable
- oAssociate nurse Practitioner qualification (desirable)
- oNVQ Level 3 or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential
- oExperience of facilitating /planning /supporting groups in a healthcare setting i.e., health improvement/ smoking cessation/ activities.
- oPhysical skills to support working in a prison setting i.e., providing patient care, carrying out tests/observations.
- oExperience of being able to work within policy frameworks in a regulated patient care setting
- oCare experience - min 12 months
Skills /Abilities /Knowledge
Essential
- oAbility to assess risk and care plan effectively, whilst understanding the needs and rights of people.
- oParticipate in any audits, research projects
- oTo take responsibility for clinical equipment /resources with which you are allocated as well as patient property and valuables.
- oAbility to relate to patients who may be experiencing high levels of distress and emotional disturbance.
- oStrong interpersonal skills and able to work under pressure.
- oTo act on own initiative when delivering patient care seeking support as required.
- oAbility to identify poor practice and standards of care when you see it and ensure that your Manager /Modern matron is aware.
- oAble to demonstrate a flexible approach to client intervention
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- oCare Certificate
- oAble to effectively communicate in English both verbally and in writing. This will mean that you can take part in conversations with patients and colleagues, expressing yourself in fluent English and have no difficulty in making yourself understood.
Desirable
- oAssociate nurse Practitioner qualification (desirable)
- oNVQ Level 3 or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential
- oExperience of facilitating /planning /supporting groups in a healthcare setting i.e., health improvement/ smoking cessation/ activities.
- oPhysical skills to support working in a prison setting i.e., providing patient care, carrying out tests/observations.
- oExperience of being able to work within policy frameworks in a regulated patient care setting
- oCare experience - min 12 months
Skills /Abilities /Knowledge
Essential
- oAbility to assess risk and care plan effectively, whilst understanding the needs and rights of people.
- oParticipate in any audits, research projects
- oTo take responsibility for clinical equipment /resources with which you are allocated as well as patient property and valuables.
- oAbility to relate to patients who may be experiencing high levels of distress and emotional disturbance.
- oStrong interpersonal skills and able to work under pressure.
- oTo act on own initiative when delivering patient care seeking support as required.
- oAbility to identify poor practice and standards of care when you see it and ensure that your Manager /Modern matron is aware.
- oAble to demonstrate a flexible approach to client intervention
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
